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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.118: Dare we speak on the laws of chance?http://wonkystuff.net/2019/05/06/18-dare-we-speak-on-the-laws-of-chance/
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:28:41 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=317Continue reading "18: Dare we speak on the laws of chance?"]]>(for the benefit of regulars, this one has switched to a Monday)

Stellar line-up this time with contributions from the North-East and the North West… highly regarded the lot of ’em!

Yol + Mariam: Yol hails from Hull and has made rather a name for himself in the experimental music scene; Mariam is an experimentalist/turntablist who also runs TOPH up in Gateshead (worth checking out)

Zimzum: Amy Horgan is revisiting York from Manchester with sounds “Distantly resembling techno, but committed to its grinding, fuggy atmosphere more than providing beat-based succour” (The Quietus)

Falco Subbuteo: Gwilly Edmondez and Val Persona bring their (Eurasian) Hobby out of retirement for a special appearance just for us.

Requested admission is £5, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds (Come See! Come Hear!).

—-Wonkystuff events are characterised by the minimal (DiY) presentation, and no canned music between performances (we value the time to talk to audience members, without the distraction of background music – we feel that the focus should be on the performed music)

Very excited about this one, return of some local characters (Collision Music) as well as a stalwart of the Leeds experimental scene (Marlo Eggplant). Textural audio-visual presentation from Magnetic Foragers, and the return of the off-kilter electro pop of the wonkystuff house band… it’s all looking pretty damn awesome to be honest.

Requested admission is £5, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds (Come See! Come Hear!).

Wonkystuff events are characterised by the minimal (DiY) presentation, and no canned music between performances (we value the time to talk to audience members, without the distraction of background music – we feel that the focus should be on the performed music)

Marlo Eggplant: Born in Baltimore, MD, USA, Marlo De Lara is a sound performance artist currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Under the Marlo Eggplant alias, De Lara produces textural compositions which develop from microscopic tone landscapes into dense and expansive states of noise and drone. Her works aim to blur the definitions of (un)intentional sound and music. The many noises and tones of De Lara’s live performances are sourced from autoharps, contact mics, vocals and loops, amongst other tools. Her pieces have minimalist origin stories that can be breached through a knowing and often slow-burning approach to improvisation. As curator and organizer of the Ladyz in Noyz (LIN) international compilation series and collective, an ongoing project from 2008 to the present, she continues to promote emerging artists and musicians who are women.

wonkystuff house band: further loose electro-pop collaboration from the staff.

]]>ws-cd002: what we do (neuschlaufen)http://wonkystuff.net/2019/04/08/ws-cd002-what-we-do-neuschlaufen/
Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:08:13 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=305Continue reading "ws-cd002: what we do (neuschlaufen)"]]>After a long period of silence on the recordings front, Wonkystuff are proud to present a new recording from neuschlaufen – a sprawling epic with touchpoints in ambient, jazz, krautrock and the spaces between them.
what we do by neuschlaufen

What do Neuschlaufen do?simultaneously tense and mellow, an amalgamation of so many disparate elements that renders it difficult to place. And that’s all the more reason to rate this effort, that broadly sits in the brackets of avant-garde, experimental, jazz, and even post-rock and math-rock, albeit at their most minimal and most deconstructed. And that is what they do.

Unfortunately Aemær was unable to play, so we have a reshuffled lineup (and a completely unknown quantity in “Subida del Muerto”!!)

Wonkystuff events are characterised by the minimal (DiY) presentation, and no canned music between performances (we value the time to talk to audience members, without the distraction of background music – we feel that the focus should be on the performed music)

Featuring:

Chrissie Caulfield: Violinist and synth player. Member of Dark Rock duo Helicopter Quartet, synth modernists CSMA and Harrogate Philharmonic Orchestra. I have toured with and sessioned for Crippled Black Phoenix and others.

wonkystuff house band: under-rehearsed wonky electro-pop. Let’s see what happens!

Requested admission is £5, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds (Come See! Come Hear!).

]]>Online Shophttp://wonkystuff.net/2019/02/04/online-shop/
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:15:31 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=280At last, we’ve put some of the hardware up on the Wonkystuff Bandcamp Shop — hopefully there’ll be some more stuff there soon!
]]>15: Seven Footprints Left In The Snowhttp://wonkystuff.net/2019/02/03/15-seven-footprints-left-in-the-snow/
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:30:50 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=283Continue reading "15: Seven Footprints Left In The Snow"]]>

Wonkystuff events are characterised by the minimal (DiY) presentation, and no canned music between performances (we value the time to talk to audience members, without the distraction of background music – we feel that the focus should be on the performed music)

Requested admission is £5, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds (Come See! Come Hear!).

]]>WonkyStuff Hardware In Actionhttp://wonkystuff.net/2018/12/06/wonkystuff-hardware-in-action/
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:13:13 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=274Over on YouTube, Danny Carnage has made use of a WonkyStuff 5×5 matrix mixer with his drone machinery. Yes, we should probably set up a store for this stuff…

Requested admission is £4, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds (Come See! Come Hear!).

— bell lungs (Edinburgh)
– Very (very) excited to say that tonight’s headliner is bell lungs, all the way from Edinburgh. Combining psychedelia, free improvisation, drone, folk, noise and dream pop, Bell Lungs takes listeners on a journey of sound. Electric violin, guitar, omnichord and field recordings are deliciously wrapped around a uniquely disarming voice, described by cult art critic David Keenan as “elemental” (The Wire).

— Orlando Ferguson (Leeds/York)
– “… playing open circuit boards, it’s difficult to determine the actual sources of the sounds which they sculpt expansive, glitchy drones that crackle and hum. Not a lot happens, slow-evolving sonic shifts, focus on detail rather than drama. Distortion ruptures smooth sonic arcs and beats like bursting bubblewrap forge subtle dynamics which balance grind and levity to immersive effect. It’s a meticulous performance, and for a few moments, time stands still.” (Aural Aggravation [edit])

— Legion of Swine (Leeds)
– “Legion of Swine is interested in noise. The potential to brutalise it, to smash it into pieces and to reconstruct it from a mass of racket. Throw in some hypocrisy via the political and ruling classes, and stir for several minutes. Pig sounds, ranting in broken Swedish, etc.” (noisewiki)

— How Buildings Fail (York)
– “… centred around the grainy and the granular, sounds are modulated into gloopy oscillations and swerving sine waves which collide with overdriven, clattering drum tracks. Rants about philosophy and reading comics. It’s a weird, nerdy clash that lands somewhere in the field next to The Fall, Meat Beat Manifesto and Revolting Cocks. ‘Creative supply is outstripping demand!’ he calls by way of a refrain in the final song of the set. He’s right.” (Aural Aggravation [edit])

Wonkystuff events are characterised by the minimal (DiY) presentation, and no canned music between performances (we value the time to talk to audience members, without the distraction of background music – we feel that the focus should be on the performed music)

]]>build and review videohttp://wonkystuff.net/2018/10/22/build-and-review-video/
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:44:24 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=267Over on youtube, Danny Carnage built and tested one of the core1/dr1a Rev.B PCBs:

]]>Orlando Ferguson at Chunk (Hogwash 25)http://wonkystuff.net/2018/10/17/orlando-ferguson-at-chunk-hogwash-25/
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:48:51 +0000http://wonkystuff.net/?p=271Recently, wonkystuff affiliates Orlando Ferguson performed at Hogwash’s 25th show over at Chunk in Leeds. Here’s what they sounded like — multiple core1 boards in play, along with other self-built hardware: